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round the sun the colonel was a photo retreat. this is our duty tonight the u.s. deal on raising the national debt ceiling is facing a vote in congress but critics say the. america's financial problems and its reputation is going down the drain. lawmakers are preparing to vote on an agreement between the white house and party leaders just one day before the u.s. risks defaulting on its loans more details washington d.c. in just a few moments also the u.s. and the e.u. step up their push for more sanctions against syria after a crackdown on protesters reportedly left more than one hundred people dead bosco says violence on either side of the country's conflict is unacceptable. egypt's own fire again as troops in cairo clashed with demonstrators demanding faster changes

after february's revolution. at a rare but deadly tornado hits one far eastern russian city injuring dozens of widespread. hello to midnight here in moscow kevin owen you're watching r.t. and first u.s. lawmakers are gearing up to vote on an emergency deal to raise the country's debt ceiling and avoid potentially devastating default it was finally struck after weeks of stalemate and political wrangling between democrats and republicans. across developments in the u.s. capitol for. lawmakers did finally hash out a deal party leaders with the white house the house of representatives is expected to vote this evening of course the house is a little bit more tricky there's a lot more folks over there and in order to get this legislation to pass the

republican leader john boehner will actually need two hundred and sixteen votes he does not have that from his own party a lot of conservatives say frankly the cuts in this deal just is not enough for them and so in order to get this legislation to pass in order to prevent the u.s. from a first ever default they will need at least sixty six democrats to sign on board and now we've seen actually the vice president joe biden has been dispatched to capitol hill this afternoon to sort of tell democrats you got to get behind this you know this isn't a raw deal for you a lot of those folks are criticizing the legislation because they say hey there's no revenue raisers we can't get enough money through this deal in order to pay for all of our obligations and now of course the senate the other chamber here in the u.s. congress is also expected to vote on this the timing is a lot more tricky on this but the majority leader harry reid does expect for some sort of vote this evening there is a lot of criticism i mean standard and poor has said that they might not they might

not be willing to keep the u.s. prize aaa rating as it is regardless of what comes out of this they don't think the cuts go deep enough and quite frankly this kind of last minute negotiating really taking the nation to the brink of default right against the clock is it's not a positive sign for the markets or for other financial watchers it's quite an embarrassment here in the u.s. and please let's we all have to keep in mind that this whole debate over the debt limit it really is about previous spending spending that the united states has already agreed to make it does not address the bigger deficit problem and the long term picture the long term fiscal health of the united states well well the compromise agreed in washington just to time to prevent a read you could trust her food food it might not be enough to persuade ratings agencies to let america keep its precious aaa credit school for college who told me whatever the come with a vote has been coups who reap the rewards of the crisis. all of the proposals on

the table all. dead and that's the basic underlying theme the u.s. treasury bond market will be downgraded it will no longer carry the aaa rating no matter what they decide and this is exactly what wall street banks want you don't make much money trading aaa rated u.s. government debt spreads a very high and there's not much money to be made traders on wall street what i call the nine eleven crybabies like jamie diamond or lloyd blankfein they want the u.s. dead downgraded to if they can dump junk status because you can make a lot more money trading junk the spreads are huge more volatility more money for blankfein and diamond who for ten years have been getting all of the money they've extorted from government whether it's hank paulson back in two thousand and eight or now or barack obama who is just a puppet of wall street extorting once again for free handouts free money again for

the too big to fail banks and this is going the way of all these other countries of saying where they've downgraded the debt great for bankers great for fees great for christmas bonuses this year for the kids but unfortunately horrible for anyone living in these countries where the american public is having their worth decimated by wall street banks and j.p. morgan and goldman sachs are to america's middle class what buffalo bill was to the buffalo population in america they're interested in wiping them out it's foolish to think of this in terms of republicans versus democrats this is about savers averse a speculator speculators want interest rates at zero percent and they want u.s. treasury bonds a junk savers who are not getting any return on their investments because interest rates are zero are buying gold which is about to hit another new all time highs in currencies around the world they're buying silver that's what the silver vigilantes are doing. because they realize that the american kleptocracy and the folks on wall

street have the american public by the juggler and they going to keep squeezing and so they end up putting another fifty or sixty million of people permanently into poverty and just destroy this economy for the purpose of making a quick buck these people are financial terrorists which includes blankfein and diamond and what a barak obama needs to do if you're working in the interest of the people would be to nationalize j.p. morgan and goldman sachs immediately fire these crooks and start all over again because you've got a predatory monopolist down there on wall street who is interested in wiping out the middle class for a quick buck and that is tyranny. keyser the what america is possible to fools resonated far and wide russia's prime minister says that the current deal struck by u.s. lawmakers will not solve the underlying issues but even putin believes that raising the ceiling yet again only postpones inevitable problems.

actually there's nothing good about it just postponed making more systemic decisions this colossal debt fourteen trillion or more means of the country has been living on credit which is really bad for one of the world's leading economies this means they live beyond their means and put a part of their burden on the entire world's economy to some extent they sponge on the world's economy and on them on a political position this means that firstly other reserve currency should show up in the world not just the dollar and the euro should be consolidated asia should come up with a regional reserve currencies the ruble can become a regional reserve currency. there's some other news now showing gyptian troops have clashed with protesters who are camping out in the center of cairo hundreds of demonstrators were cleared away from tahrir square where they've been gathering for weeks to demand faster reforms after five years revolution michael mann's professor of modern history at oxford university told us the gyptian is a ready for another uprising because they say too much of the old regime in the new

one. the secular opposition. are happy with the changes since we're barak. the military government in practice is a continuation. and also absolutely what they want to have not been done. to exist when we could see this attempt to clear the square may well vote more protests more violence the beginning of ramadan the other hand it also may be a sign that the government wants to use ramadan as a month to calm the situation before we are supposed to have elections. in eight weeks time now of course more protests we could see as we've seen in other parts of our world experts. in evening after the end of casting people were just the hospitals are demonstrating what we could see the government can this will be an opportunity to correct some support from people who feel they've had enough demonstrations in cairo but you have a kind of weariness of the demonstrations but of course there are many people who stop demonstrating. would also guy. meantime several nato states are

threatening action against syria when the u.n. security council said to hold an emergency meeting on the situation it comes as residents of the city of hama report that the army has resumed shelling residential areas there more than one hundred people are said to have been killed on sunday when government tanks forced their way into the opposition stronghold russia's condemned the violence in syria calling on both sides the government and the opposition to abstain from brutality and abide by the law meantime the use expanding sanctions on damascus let's try to round all this up talk to professor joshua landis is from the center of a mideast studies at the university of oklahoma thanks for being with us professor much appreciate it so serious forces are continuing to crack down on the people despite government promises of reform and change why. well how are those which is the center of this crackdown. came left government control about three weeks ago

the government the governor allowed to called off the troops and withdrew security from the town. was summarily fired and the government realized this was a big mistake and what happened now is the last three weeks our has been out of government control and in as ramadan comes and the opposition said that every day would be friday we think the government is clearly trying to take control of hama and doesn't want to become a site where perhaps a new military could grow up a free syrian military or a new political order can the un off anything here it's set to meet for them urgency session on syria do you think the security council may have some sort of solution to offer an end to the violence in how much and elsewhere well it's not clear and as you know your viewers know russia has been key in vetoing efforts by united states britain and germany to come up with stronger

language and stronger actions against syria and russia has said we did not want to have happen in libya. again in syria and so so that has that it's not have on the other hand russia made some pretty strong statements today about syria's need to to stop shooting. it is it now a time a case for the same sort of action as we saw in libya to be happening in syria maybe a nato led coalition going in despite what you say there about what russia wants. well you know it's not clear to me all all of the syrian opposition leaders who have maps in and elected executive committees have all demanded that there be no foreign intervention now of course foreign intervention is a very broad and gray area there is we all agree intervention likely be up but there is also economic. greater economic strangulation of the country which could

come along the united states already has sanctions fairly severe sanctions on syria but europe does not and just extended sanctions that has just extended the most native i will make any difference where the dollars instead of individuals it's extended them to govern government top government officials that means that they have money in the u.s. it can be frozen when it's obvious he does it because it thinks it can carry some weight so do you think president as your openness will heed that you know look at it maybe it carries a little bit of weight but it's largely being done for domestic reasons because the west feels it needs to do something it doesn't want to stop trade you know we've tried sanctions in iraq in iran libya they haven't worked very much and when they have work they starve the people and not the government and that's the danger of sanctions if they feel good because you feel like you're doing something and you could tell the opposition you're on their side but they in fact they often heard

the people you don't want to hurt first you talked about the people there being affected in syria what about the wider ramifications here if this goes on how could it affect the why the world. well you know this is more destruction in the middle east and obviously saudi arabia feels threatened by. by the whole arab spring it has been trying to stop it it could help destabilize iran i mean iraq excuse me or lebanon turkey doesn't like it because there have been refugees and the fear is that if serious looks towards civil war there would be a lot more refugees so clearly this is challenges all of the neighbors of syria on the other hand military intervention economic sanctions may do no good either can the world stop syria from going through this these convulsions i'm not sure i can ok professor joshua landis thanks for your expert opinion there from the center of

the mideast studies at the university of oklahoma good of you to program a pleasure. focusing on israel now for a bit showy thousands there have taken industrial action in tel aviv this weekend in protest against the government the strikes followed the whole weekend of massive demonstrations over rising house prices and escalating cost of living people are demanding social justice and better working conditions dottie's policy is there for us following the latest in tel aviv. israelis are mobilizing on the streets of tel aviv tonight in my day for a demonstration against the government although the numbers on might seem to reach the tens of pounds and that witnessed over the years the demonstration is much the same as it has been over the past two the top meets the minds mobilize on line the grievances against these may be government's economic policies of course but these may be prime minister even that's why not which resign as well as for a regime change now a short time ago the israeli president shimon peres sniffled some news to protest

organizers the initiator of the meeting in city wanted to see what the grievances were and forming that meeting you say that what needed to be changed would be changed agree different message compared to what the feeling of the netanyahu have had to not insult has been put to money over these protests since they began and we know that he is pushing for a thousandfold to be positive it is possible this is a poll that looks at you walk to see around the construction plan at the top a spokesperson say that means demonstrations were also of propulsion and that was really put to me with sound and healthy having said that both the director general of the finance ministry the science that's in the offices of the special committee to meet with the protestors and looking to make grievances the supreme government is struggling to deal with what is really one of the largest midst of crises that they've had in recent years there are of course part of those being made between what's happening there with its wall what we saw over the arab world to be arab

spring in the last few months there was at this stage seem to be no indications this approach is dissolving into violence although one of the pentel there have been a number of the race made that's according to this past weekend in the weekend before there was another mobilization happening on line for a million man march tens of thousands of israelis have already signed up for class which is scheduled to take place me this weekend of september perhaps the fist way to describe the current islamic movement is one thing. well it's the feed it. would take. to keep warm opinions to forty eight forty c. i want to tell it. like the smarties policy are there you can follow more from a course online of r.t. dot com while you're there these stories get more clicks tonight china is a coffee cup here a giant furniture store the star of the iconic furniture brand it's an old thing to give me here right down to the navy yellow coloring and the free pencils and paper

route when i hear more about that started dot com tonight. a moscow's old architectural gems are getting a new lease of life but not in a good way they've been turned into money traps targeting illegal immigrants watchers nazi crew pays a visit to uncover the details but artie dot com. next tonight veterans of hitler's elite troops who fought against the soviet army in world war two have traveled from around europe to hold an annual rally in stony up for members of the nazi waffen s.s. referred to locally as fighters for freedom but joined by a neo nazi groups from the country and as our sisera first reports now it's fair to stone is glorification of matt c. ism is feeding dangerous far right movements right across europe. association of former soldier laughing this off or on but

it's something at the moment you don't think about later or think about the people . that for. him country and most of year at these kind of events a band we cannot know what they're going to hear. it in a sting it's a different story altogether. it's common in the story to call these people freedom fighters we hold our protest rallies on the same day they hold this event to remind them what they are that they had given allegiance to hitler to tell them what they had never liberated dystonia moreover money of them were engaged in and all of them are more or less accomplices of the crimes committed by nazi germany. in fact in recent years the astin you know thirty's have made it increasingly difficult for those who come to oppose the event this year once again members of the anti fascist movement we detained at the buddha and pool day that by the police the car we were

traveling in was also a stop for questioning on the way in i was stopped and i was told that i have an entry prohibit to the country and of course they don't want any kind of other opinions than their own opinion which is very very much supporting the basis of the revival of the far right across europe has caused growing concern right parties a gaining ground in countries like australia finland and france savage slaughter by far right extremists earned his bravery in norway recently is driven to show just how dangerous these fees remain i think this is a problem off. the extremism and far right wing extremism and the fact that authorities leadership. calls calls as. this the city far failed to take decisive action to stop nazi commemorations within

its borders russia's push for international legislation to condemn the glorification of wartime fascism but events like the one in history and make it glaringly clear the not all countries are on board critics of this event hardly that the gathering provides a for and for dangerous near fascist i did is the government's failure to ban it is seen at the very least as being morally and politically insensitive served our city . freak weather destruction and death one victim was killed by a powerful twister as it swept through russia's far east twenty eight others were injured by the huge whirlwind of natural phenomenon considered rare not only for the region but also for the whole of russia these are the pictures the tornado tore through this city center it tore apart the roof tops you can see there and balconies going up in smoke there of more than one hundred buildings overturning trucks trees ripping out power lines such destruction it may just only for

a few minutes but i would have reported that it caused incredible damage most roads have been cleared but many homes are still without power because of it if you want one of these dramatic pictures forgot them on our web site tonight exclusively at r.t. dot com. next hour to speak to russia's deputy foreign minister about the sequence of events since come to be known as the arab spring. explains why moscow opposes any u.n. resolution against the syrian regime despite its condemnation of continuing violence in the country.

the developments in the middle east concern the entire world and russia is no exception russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council as well as an active member of the international court in the middle east russia's deputy foreign minister dung of. joins us to discuss recent developments and the situation in the middle east and answer the question whether the region is going through the arab spring some experts say or a period of decline just about done of before he became deputy foreign minister you were russia's ambassador to egypt for a number of years and witnessed the tragic events that ship the country the life of the vast majority of egyptians remain bitterly hard and it's constantly deteriorating do you think there's a possibility that egypt will experience another way of mass protests this time

inspired by economic demands what are the prospects for egyptian state or considering the influence of the region any crucial decisions taken should only be taken by the people employing a democratic procedure be it a referendum plebiscite or nationwide election did you know that there has been an action plan for reform drafted in egypt which includes reforming the electoral system for both parliamentary and presidential elections introducing amendments to the constitution adjusting existing legislation on adoption important new laws that will affect the social economic and political aspects of life for the out of community we hope energy and friends achieve progress and success on their possible reforms. into syria now which is one of the most difficult problems in the region the west responded negatively to the statements and the actions of the syrian government on the use tightening of sanctions against syria the un resolution is being used to probe the situation for the possibility of military intervention

higher the chances that western countries will indeed unleash a military comparing against syria when we realize that city is going through a very difficult stage of development similar to a few other countries in the region and internal civil conflict between the government and part of society political social and economic problems hogger of ated both in terms of numbers and complexity we think the best way to deal with these problems is a nationwide dialogue combined with crucial political social and economic reforms we also call in the sitting government to keep their promises and live up to the. hopes and aspirations of the people that were adequately express during the mass rallies that russia has refused to even discuss the draft resolution on syria proposed by france what is the reason behind such a tough stance especially with regard to the fact that moscow did not stonewall the u.n. security council resolution on libya are there any other ways of resolving the syrian crisis when there are national help. we believe that the city and should address their problems as part of their domestic agenda this is an internal civil conflict

and it should not be internationalized as for the situation in libya of course every country is unique in terms of its particular situation the background of its conflict the form of the scale of public protest etc on the other hand we should learn our lessons this tree first the un resolution on libya you've mentioned we are all witness to it and we still see it neither the number of international players tend to digress from the strict observation of both the instructions and the spirit of these resolutions therefore we are not really concerned that such loose interpretations could only result in making some of the opposition circles tighten their position and opt for a tougher approach which is by no means opposed of achievement in terms of finding a mutually acceptable solution europe is becoming increasingly wary and disappointed when the military campaign in libya the conflict shows no sign of ending the plight of the civilian population is deteriorating radically what measures would you consider necessary for the conflict in parties and the international community to take in order to bring about

a solution both in political and humanitarian terms because if someone from the very start we have urged the parties in the conflict to cease all military action declared a truce and work at a sustainable solution for peace in libya in order to kick start the process of political reconciliation in this regard we have highly appreciated the contribution of the african union which prepared a rude mouth for reconciliation in libya the u.n. secretary general's envoy for libya is also contributing a lot to this process having come up with a number of additional settlement proposals addressing both military and. a little aspects of on as we discuss events in this region we can't avoid touching upon its key problem i mean the palestinian issue new generations of israelis and palestinians have maturity since the middle east peace process was launched but we still haven't seen any fusible progress in the goshi asians would you say this is a deadlock or is there a way to get the peace process on track and what would it require. i think that everybody realizes that the palestinians and israelis are bound by destiny itself

to live side by side as you know russia advocates establishing an independent palestinian state as soon as possible for the state to live alongside israel maintaining peace and security we are committed to this purpose both as a permanent member of the security council and as an octave participant of the middle east quartet there was a ministerial meeting of the quartet in washington recently which featured a very specific detailed discussion on the situation with regard to the palestinian israeli truck we are certainly concerned with the negotiation been stalled at the moment who still hope that both parties will find a way to agree on resuming the talks with a view to establishing an independent palestinian state as soon as possible and to resolve all of the remaining issues and not just reach a final settlement between israel and the palestinians.

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